Chapter 50 Section 1

Jialiang—— Li Jialiang—— Wu Yunqige's voice was almost broken, every word was hoarse like blood, but in the whistling of the overwhelming white-haired wind, it seemed as if a drop of water was sprinkled on the waves, and disappeared without a trace in an instant. It was a day in mid-November 1977. In the evening, there was a sudden snowstorm on the grassland without warning.Li Jialiang picked up a few pieces of dried cow dung from the grassy beach, put them into the house with the lower skirt of his sheepskin robe, and threw them into the hearth. I went in, lit the fire, and was stirring the pot with a copper spoon when I heard rumbling noises outside the house.He looked out through the plastic sheet pasted on the wooden window frame, and the sky and the earth were misty, as if countless white flags were waving.

When she was in a trance, Lei Kangmei jumped in, and while spitting on the ground, she cursed: "It's so fucking evil, the wind blows when it's fine." Then she shrunk her nose and burst into a smile, " Ha, I have mutton soup tonight!" "How are things going?" Li Jialiang asked, his eyes under thick eyebrows were particularly deep. Lei Kangmei squatted by the hearth, rubbed his hands to warm the fire, "What can I do, a large group of people surrounded the director of the Revolutionary Committee, some cried and wiped their tears, some begged grandpa to sue grandma, I just stood up straight The director said with a stern face that the children of "the land rich and the bad right" can take the college entrance examination, there is no clear attitude from above, and we still have to wait for the policy at the moment."

Li Jialiang frowned. "I was so angry at the time, I asked him why he was teasing people!" Lei Kangmei said carelessly, "I slapped the "People's Daily" published on October 21 on his desk and looked at it. The editorial "Doing well in college admissions is the hope of the people of the whole country" is a decision of the Party Central Committee. How dare you sing the opposite?! Hey, you didn't see that, the director's face is as ugly as if he was run over on a lye grass beach. Others The educated youths also got up from the ground one by one, surrounded them and made a noise. The director took off the official seal from his trouser belt, slapped it on the table, said, "Look, you guys can really make a difference," and then slammed the door and left angrily. That's it, the rest of the room, like grabbing bones, I kicked hard at the bunch of pouting butts, only to grab the official seal and stamp two copies—one for you, one for me!"

Li Jialiang looked at the flames jumping in the furnace and said, "The director is actually a good person." "Hey, what do you mean? He is a good person, and I have become a villain, right?" Lei Kangmei glared at him. Li Jialiang smiled faintly and did not speak again. The tongue of fire licked the bottom of the pot, and there was a beep, beep, beep, and the room suddenly became very quiet, and the window frame seemed to be broken by the wind. "Old Li, what's the matter with you?" Lei Kangmei asked with concern seeing his gloomy expression.Both of them are actually young people in their twenties, but Li Jialiang looks much older.

"It's nothing, the college entrance examination, I don't want to go." "What are you talking about?!" Lei Kangmei widened his eyes in surprise, and his expression gradually became serious, "Lao Li, this is not a joke. Among the young people on our farm, you are the most read and knowledgeable. Are you willing to put the I will spend my whole life in this place where rabbits don't shit?" Li Jialiang's eyes were blank. "You are talking! Others want to leave like crazy, why are you still hesitating? This time the college entrance examination has nothing to do with family status, why are you worried?"

After a long time, Li Jialiang sighed, "I'm just... a little desperate." "What?" Lei Kangmei didn't understand. "In the past ten years, I always feel that I have seen all the ugly things in the world... This Hulingzi Township is remote, poor, and rabbits don't shit, but there are not so many false, fake, ignorant, It's stupid, it didn't trample people to death, I thought it was a paradise from that day on." Lei Kangmei was silent for a moment, and said: "I know what you said, but when Mr. Deng came out of the mountains, the country has hope... Our nation has had a lot of troubles since ancient times, and I don't believe that this time it will be possible Extinct. Let’s say I’m cynical all day long, and I slept before twelve o’clock at night? The ancient Chinese medicine books I stole from the county library, I can’t wait to read them through. Will the good things be passed on?"

"But believe it or not, if one day in the future, Chinese medicine becomes popular again, the medical theories you study are still not as popular as 'human blood steamed buns'." Li Jialiang smiled wryly, "I have read so much history, I have already seen through it , For thousands of years, the dynasties have changed, and the replacer and the replaced are actually the same!" Lei Kangmei felt chills all over when he heard this, and couldn't help tightening the collar of his padded jacket. Li Jialiang said in a low voice: "As soon as I heard that the college entrance examination was resumed, the young people on our farm were all overjoyed, but I just couldn't be happy. I always thought: so what if I passed the entrance examination? What if I walked out of this Hulingzi Township? What can I do? Could it be a different place, a different way to dance the Zhongzi dance and sing the song? Just thinking about it makes me sweat..."

"Lao Li, you think too much. If you think this way, you will have nothing to live for." Lei Kangmei smiled helplessly, "I am not as smart as you, and I am not as tall and far-sighted as you. No matter what the environment is, I still have to work hard to do something, for myself and for this disaster-ridden motherland." Li Jialiang sighed, "So, I say I'm desperate." The two friends were looking at the mist rising from the pot, each thinking about their own thoughts, when suddenly they heard a loud bang from outside! Lei Kangmei jumped up suddenly, lifted the cotton curtain and pushed the door out. He was choked by the strong wind and couldn't breathe. When he took a closer look, he couldn't help shouting: "Lao Li! Come out quickly! The shed has collapsed." ! The horses are gone!"

Li Jialiang rushed out to take a look, ran to the side of the collapsed shed, picked up a lasso pole from the ground, shook it out with a whoosh, and the lasso was just around the neck of a blue horse.Before the horse could struggle, Li Jialiang jumped up and sat on its back, and pulled the bit. The horse let out a long neigh, its front hooves flew into the air, and it spun around on the spot a few times. Docile. Li Jialiang yelled to Lei Kangmei: "I'll go and catch the horses back, you just watch over the house!" Seeing the heavy snowstorm, Lei Kangmei wanted to stop him, but he could only hear the sound of horseshoes coming from near and far, and they had already disappeared.

Lei Kangmei had no choice but to go back to the house, fidgeting and waiting, every second was as long as a year... I don't know how long it took, but the pot of mutton soup was dry, and Li Jialiang still didn't come back.Lei Kangmei couldn't hold back anymore, even though her riding skills were extremely poor, she had to look for it.He grabbed the whip from the kang and was about to go out when a man rushed into the house and bumped into him.He saw that it was Wu Yunqige, wearing a Lei Feng hat, a yellow leather robe with silver trim, and felt boots. His beautiful face was red with cold, and frost hung on his eyebrows.

"Where's Jialiang?" Wu Yunqige was stunned when he saw that there was no one in the room, "It was too windy and snowy, I was afraid that you would have nothing to eat, so I rolled out some noodles for you... Why did the horse shed outside collapse? ?” "The horses ran away, and he cut off the horses." Before Lei Kangmei finished speaking, Wu Yunqige had already turned around, got on his horse and rushed into the wind and snow. "Jialiang—" "Li Jialiang—" What responded to her was only white knives all over the sky, cutting her face one by one. She cried and cried, her face hurt, and her heart hurt even more. She knew that such a snowstorm, even if she went out wrapped in ten layers of cotton-padded jackets, she couldn't bear it. For half an hour, once it freezes, the gods can't save it. The snow was too heavy and the wind was too tight. She seemed to be wrapped in a big white hole, and she couldn't get out no matter how she walked. , shining white light.She drove her horse forward to look, and couldn't help feeling horrified: Dozens of horses had swarmed into the Lake of Tears, and the dead horses piled up on the shore of the lake, freezing into a huge lump of ice. Her heart sank: Jialiang is probably doomed.The white hair pierced from the forehead to the brain, and she was paralyzed all of a sudden, almost falling off the horse.